Summary
Many characters have accepted theGhost Ridermantle in the character’s fifty-year Marvel Comics history, and the greatest are being featured in a new variant cover series. Celebrating the upcoming release ofSpirits of Vengeance, variant covers featuring eight distinct Ghost Riders will be released to celebrate this lineage. Part of their Marvel’s Stormbreakers lineup, each cover and character is brilliantly rendered by incredible artists spotlighting each unique character.
With eight covers for each character selected for the variant series,the most powerful Ghost Rider charactersthat are highlightedinclude Robbie Reyes, Danny Ketch, Kushala, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Vengeance, Phantom Rider, the Ghost Rider of 1,000,000 BC, and Johnny Blaze.Many of the Ghost Rider characters featured will go on to star in Sabir Pirzada and Sean Damien Hill’sSpirits of Vengeance.
The diabolically demonic heroes are brought to life by the following trailblazing group of Marvel’s Stormbreakers artists: Lucas Werneck, Nic Klein, Jan Bazaldua, Elena Casagrande, Martín Cóccolo, Chris Allen, Federico Vicentini, and C.F. Villa.
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Marvel Celebrates The New “Spirits of Vengeance” Series With History’s Greatest Ghost Riders
StormbreakerGhost RiderVariant Covers, Available September 2024
Spirits of Vengeancewill put every character that has ever taken the Ghost Rider or Spirit of Vengeance mantle at risk, as they battle a dastardly and devilish reawakened enemy, Vengeance, featured in Cóccolo’s variant cover.
As Marvel has continued to flesh out Ghost Rider’s supernatural corner of the universe, there have been enough Spirits of Vengeance to assemble an entire team of hell-raising heroes. Exactly that will happen inthe upcomingSpirits of Vengeanceseriesthat the Ghost Rider variants are in celebration of, with featured characters Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch, Kushala, and Robbie Reyes guaranteed to make prominent appearances.Spirits of Vengeancewill put every character that has evertaken the Ghost Rider or Spirit of Vengeance mantleat risk, as they battle a dastardly and devilish reawakened enemy, Vengeance, featured in Cóccolo’s variant cover.
Marvel’s entire Halloween season should be chock-full of ghastly goodness with plenty of occultic Ghost Rider action to go around. In addition toSpirits of Vengeanceand the Marvel’s Stormbreakers variant series in its honor, theAll-Rider Robbie Reyes also gets his own special one-shot, to be released in October 2024. With that one-shot promising to unleash Reyes’ full power, anda vast lineup of Ghost Rider characters involved in the fight against Vengeance, Hell will surely be raised throughout the entirety of Earth-616 this Fall.
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The lineup of Ghost Riders is well-established and still growing, and Marvel has managed to choose just eight of the greatest incarnations of the character throughout their history and spotlights them in the new variant series.
Though the universe of Ghost Riders is already quite extensive with plenty of heroes,the lineup continues to grow with new Spirits of Vengeance and adjacent characters. The aforementionedGhost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special #1includes a story by Melissa Flores and Jan Bazaldua, which will see the debut of former New Champion Fantasma. Fantasma, aka, Izzy Alvarez is a new addition to the franchise with blue flames and a roller derby motif. Wolverine’s son has also recently taken upthe mantle of the Ghost Rider-likeHellverine, which will continue in an upcoming solo series.
The lineup of Ghost Riders is well-establishedand still growing, and Marvel has managed to choose just eight of the greatest incarnations of the character throughout their history and spotlights them in the new variant series. With astonishing covers by Marvel’s Stormbreakers for each of the characters selected, each piece of art created highlights the distinct differences in each demonic hero. As the greatestGhost Ridersin comics history are featured with the chance to star in the hell-raisingSpirits of Vengeance, pure pandemonium could be unleashed in the Marvel Universe.
Marvel’s Stormbreakers Ghost Rider variant covers will be available throughout September 2024 from Marvel Comics.
Spirits of Vengeance #1(2024)
